Stanley Hauerwas Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.”

“Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.”

“When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.”

“Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.”

“God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.”

“God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.”

“I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.”

“I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.”

“I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'”

“Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again.”